Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jdd sur free wrote:
> Shriramana Sharma wrote:
>
> > Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 21:40 samaye jdd sur free alekhiit:
> >
> > > mandrake is, on my opinion, not as "clean" as suse. thingd
> > > are not always done like it should
> >
> >
> > Mandrake 10.1 installation failed, and I never tried again. Just my 50 
> > paise.
> this happens also with suse :-(
>
> I didn't wan to say mandriva is not a good distro, but, for example, the 
> _text mode_ (ncurse) equivallent of yast is nearly unusable, far from 
> the graphical one.
>
> I use SUSE on server, through ssh and don't wan to bother with graphics. 
> SUSE is very nice for that
>
> jdd

I use both Mandriva and SuSE heavily. 98% of my time at this SuSE box, 
but using ssh, a fair bit of the time on the 2 Mandriva boxes, 
especially on the one where I have my DVB-T card and SCSI disks. I use 
the latest kernel.org kernels, NVidia drivers and the latest software I 
download. SuSE, Mandriva, gentoo, they're all working fine with 
everything I throw at them. If one box goes down with a hardware 
problem, it's mainly been  this SuSE box with memory and motherboard 
problems, I can easily do all the stuff like skype, hamradio VOIP, 
Flightgear flightsim, move my USB devices over and carry on with 
whatever I need to do on the Mandriva box.
I can honestly say I have no issues with any of them. If they were 
deficient, they wouldn't attract the number of happy users they do.
Someone would have to quantify "not as clean" for me as I'm probably 
missing something.
Regards
Sid.
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